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...involved his son Elliott, on duty with an air force detachment in Newfoundland, who thought he was in the soup when he was suddenly ordered to remain on his station. Elliott had no idea what was up until the appointed day when, still without explanation, he flew out over the bay, saw the incredible assemblage of naval power, and was greeted by his father...
Into the White House waddled Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman, welcomed the President back from his conference with Winston Churchill in Newfoundland, laid upon his desk three alternative plans for a complete realignment of the ailing defense setup...
...route will go from New York City (with Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted...
...Before the U.S. can be effectively invaded from the middle Atlantic-or from enemy outposts established in Latin America-the Caribbean must be taken or penetrated. The only alternative route is through the North Atlantic, whose approaches the U.S. must control from Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland (where another Army airman also commands all Army forces...
...place was almost certainly Newfoundland, perhaps Placentia Bay, not many miles away from the huge new U.S. naval base now building. There the coast line is rugged and barren, as it was in the few glimpses appearing in the pictures released, and the weather mostly foggy as it was described in the accounts of the meeting...